Software upgrade on Sunday

On Sunday 22nd June Eastern Regional Libraries will be undertaking a major upgrade to the new Symphony Software with SirsiDynix.

As a result of the upgrade:

• the 5 branches open on Sunday will be working offline


• the iBistro catalogue will be unavailable from Sunday AM - Monday AM


• 10-minute Internet PCs will be unavailable on Sunday, possibly Monday AM (the regular bookable Internet PCs will be available)
  

Apologies for an inconvenience.

I've made quite a few changes to iBistro, including:

• the addition of the new logo and change of colours to fit in with the website


• increasing the font size of text and links


• addition of an Online Resources page - encyclopedias, newspaper/magazine articles and reference books available 24/7 for free with your library card


• a change of the wording for the options in My Account. Feedback has been that some of these options were unclear. Review My Account will be View items/holds on card. Renew My Materials will be Renew items on card. I have also added a link to get a PIN via email if you do not know it.
  


• the addition of the times renewed to the View items and Renew screens.


• advising members of new titles by their favorite author or subject. Members have been saving authors and subjects as favorites and as yet haven't received any emails. Firstly I will be removing the favorites added through borrowing so you might see a couple of authors etc disappear. Don't worry though the favorites you have been manually adding though will still be there. If you have an email address set up on your card you should be receiving notification soon of any new titles added to our collection that match your favorites.
  

Some sneak peeks of the new iBistro catalogue:

The overall front page (enlarged catalogue view with login)





Closeup of the front page




Changes to wording on My Account menu




You can see the number of times an item has been renewed



You will be able to see all of the changes next week once the upgrade has finished. Thanks to all of the members who have given me feedback over the the last year and a bit. I have been able to use that to make some of the changes. There are still a few things that people have suggested that we need to work on - namely being able to see the items on your card belonging to other consortium libraries and being able to view the issue details of magazines in the View My Items screen.

Phew! Can't rest now, we still have work to do for the upgrade.

Cheers, Maryanne